Brazilian tribe's quarup ritual – in pictures

Brazilian tribe's quarup ritual – in pictures

Reuters photographer Ueslei Marcelino visited the Waura tribe in Xingu national park, Mato Grosso state. Quarup is a ritual held over several days to honour a person of great importance who has died. This year the Waura tribe is honouring their late chief Atamai, who died in 2012 and helped created the Xingu park, and his important contribution in facilitating communication between white and indigenous Brazilians

Monday 26 August 2013 18.38 EDT

Members of the Waura tribe participate in a ceremony during this year's quarup

Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert captured amazing close-up photographs of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe after his helicopter flight took a detour to avoid a rainstorm and happened to fly over their longhouse